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While federal policymakers are debating the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade, consumer giant Costco with its 180,000 employees announced it will raise its internal minimum wage to $16 an hour. That’s one dollar more than the $15 an hour that workers and labor groups have been demanding for years as a federal minimum wage.
Costco had already raised its starting hourly wage to $14 in 2018 and $15 in 2019. The company says 20 percent of its employees currently earn its minimum wage, according to CNN.
Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., the Biden-Harris administration has been pushing to boost the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the next COVID-19 relief and recovery package. Some Democratic representatives in Congress are weighing a $12 minimum hourly wage as a compromise. On the other side of the aisle, Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota opposes a $15 minimum hourly wage, saying he earned $6 an hour as a kid which would be $23 an hour
The new United States administration seems in no rush to lift the aluminium and steel tariffs imposed by Donald Trump in 2018. Indeed, one of Joe Biden’s first acts was to reverse Trump’s final-hour lifting of tariffs on aluminium from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “The available evidence indicates that imports from the UAE may .